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How long do you spend getting ready in the morning? What does your routine entail?”

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wow i can't complain! My alarm goes off at 6am - if my 1 year old is still sleeping - i hit snooze until 6:30ish. then i am up and brush teeth/shower/dry hair/get dressed and ready to go by 7:15ish. If my son wakes up during that time my husband gets up and gets him dressed, once he gets in the shower and i am dressed, i take over and we have breakfast together (favorite part!) then we are all ready and walk out the door together by 7:30 if all goes well... lately it's been more like 8am!

Wake at 5:45. Get baby's breakfast and bottle ready. Wake and change baby. Feed baby until about 6:30. Somtimes my 3 yr old wakes before then. If so, she gets breakfast then. If not, I wake her at 6:30 and my husband takes over with the kids. Then I brush teeth, shower, dress, do my hair all by 6:50-ish. Then we finish getting kids dressed and ready to leave. Hopefully I am out of the house by 7:10 at the latest. My commute ranges from an hour to 1.5 hours (2 hours if there is an accident, snow, rain, sun glare, etc.).

5:45 alarm - work out from 6 - 7
7am wake up kids - while they are eating I shower, get dressed, dry my hair(takes the longest), skincare, teeth all about 30 min.
7:30 - kids pactice piano and finish getting ready for departure to school at 7:55
Drive kids to school - home by 8:05 make coffee and toss in a load of laundry, take vitamins and drink a protien shake.
Walk to my office (I am also very thankful to work from home so no commute ) My husband has been working out of town most weekdays so no help from him.
Start work at 8:10

On a normal school day, I spend about 90 minutes getting myself and my son ready. I wake up around 6:00 and take a shower. Then, I wake my son up. Next, I go downstairs and let the dog out, make lunch for myself and my son, and eat breakfast while I watch the news. Ideally, my husband gets up and gives my son chocolate milk at this time. I go back upstairs at 7:00 and get dressed and do hair and make-up. At 7:25, my husband and I walk my son to meet his bus, and I leave shortly afterward. Now that I have a baby, I am sure that our routine will have to be modified!

Just me or the whole family? I need about 40 minutes for myself and another 30 or so minutes for the kids (husband usually requires a few minutes for matching socks or some other silly task). Showers, hair, teeth, makeup, clothes, Airborne, vitamins, check the schedule, lunches, kiss-kiss honey, bye.

Depends on what you consider the "routine". I get up 5:30ish and get dressed immediately in clothes I've set out the night before, brush my hair, brush my teeth, grab the laundry basket and toss in a load. This all takes about 15 minutes. My working day starts at 7:45.

In between 5:45 and 7:45? I take an hour of me-time: reading, facial cleansing, maybe even a pedicure. I answer emails. I might write a blog post. Sometimes I go for a walk.

I don't: make my kids' lunches (they've made their own since they were nine); get my family out of bed (it's their responsibility to get themselves to where they're going; they take the consequences if they don't); make breakfast (everyone makes their own, according to their own timetable).

I do: sit with my kids when they eat, and chat about their days. Kiss my husband goodbye! I work from home, so my clients come to me. No commute, for which I am very grateful.

The short story? My personal prep. time takes 15 minutes. (I shower in the afternoons, not the morning. We have only the one bathroom, and I don't want to wake people up as early as I wake, nor plug up an already busy room at prime time.)

I take FOREVER, especially compared to you ladies! :-) I'm up at 4:30 on weekday mornings. Stretches, shower, skincare, hairdryer, put on dog-walking clothes, start coffeemaker, walk the dog, eat breakfast, brush teeth, makeup, put on office clothes, fight with hair - that's what takes up the morning, and if I'm really on top of things I can be out the door by 6:45. I'm rarely that on top of things, though - a few minutes here and there to check e-mail, feed reader, and traffic reports online, and some conversation with my husband, and it's usually more like 7 when I leave. And by local standards, this is usually early enough to beat some traffic and make the 30-mile drive to work in about an hour. Luckily, my husband deals with the kids on the two mornings a week they're with us.

hmm, I am out the door in about 30 minutes - shower, dress, coffee, flick on mascara and run..although coffee and run are usually combined! Some mornings I work out, so that adds an hour..and most mornings I get up early enough to hang with my son for a bit-we like to snuggle on the couch, and then I get ready. My husband is in charge of mornings..he's a morning person and I'm not so that helps alot.

I am pretty quick. 10 minutes for shower and hair - well, I have such short hair that it literally takes a minute with some moose. 10 minutes for makeup and clothes. That's my max. On weekends when my husband is here watching our little one I'll do a quick mask, so that adds 5 minutes. But that's tops for me.